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# Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol Hardcover – 17 Nov. 2016

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- **What is this?** Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol Hardcover – 17 Nov. 2016 by steve jones
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A must read for those who remember '77 but beware it's frank and Jones wasn't always a good guy...
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2022*

Steve Jones was never going to win any literary awards for his "warts and all" tale of his up bringing in the less than salubrious parts of West London; his all too few years in the limelight as the Sex Pistols guitarist (and studio bassist); and his struggles and ultimately his survival through the forty years since the Pistols flame was extinguished.  But this is an interesting book: it's surprisingly well written for a man who didn't learn to read and write until he was in his thirties; and it's an honest insight to the sex, drugs, rock and roll and thieving demons that drove him to the edge and how he turned his life around, although there are moments when Jones comes across as proselytising but I shouldn't complain if it helps others as Jones is clearly aiming to.Surprisingly there is very little, perhaps too little about the Pistols actual music.  Jones has avoided the all too common mistake that musicians make of thinking their readers are interested in details of keys, riffs and so on.  Instead Jones focuses on the personalities that whirled around him in the cash from chaos maelstrom surrounding the Pistols; and with Rotten/Lydon, Cook, Matlock, Vicious, McLaren, Westwood, et al there's a lot of personalities to focus on.  I particularly liked Jones's thoughts on how John Simon Ritchie might have turned out if he had been called Sid Gentle or Sid Nice, and his conflictions on Lydon/Rotten make for an interesting read.While Steve Jones's thoughts and memories may not be of interest to anyone who's never heard the Pistols for those us who fondly remember punk's annus mirabilis of 1977 this is a must read (unless of course you are John Lydon!) but beware it is brutally frank and Jones wasn't always a good guy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Exuberant, funny and often dark
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2021*

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols, with his schoolmate Paul Cook and who was its original leader.A friend at work was reading this and raved about it, so I decided to give it a go.  I’ve been aware of The Sex Pistols since they began, even though I was too young in 1977 to appreciate them (and watched “The Great Rock N Roll Swindle” before I should have) and like their music and stance, but went into this not knowing what to expect.  And it didn’t disappoint.  Told in an exuberant style (ghost written by Ben Thompson), as if Jones was regaling you in a pub (with no alcohol present), this starts off very dark indeed, as he’s abused by his step-dad (his father ran away before he was born) and then by a local ‘nonce’ in the underpass.  From here, however, we see the glam of the 70s almost from the inside, as the lonely, neglected boy skips school, lives off petty thievery, discovers girls and steals equipment from Bowie, the Stones and Roxy Music.  After coming into contact with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, punk is born and The Sex Pistols takes off.  Jones tells the story frankly (and often paints himself in the worse light), from the ‘filth and the fury’ up to 2015 (when this was published).  Occasionally harrowing, often funny and never dull, this is a cracking autobiography and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Very much recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great read
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2022*

I bought this book after I watched the series Pistol. It has more detail of Steve Jones' life growing up, the forming of the Sex Pistols and post Sex Pistols. A very interesting read, sometimes funny and other times heartbreaking. I found it to be a very honest account of how he was abused as a child, and his later battle with addiction. He fully admits things he did wrong in his life to other people and is obviously very remorseful. A must read for any Steve Jones and Sex Pistols fans.

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